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The Benefits of
The Battle

Judges 73-21
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Before you declare war, get confirmation.
Judges 636-40 36 So Gideon
said to God, "If You will save Israel by my
hand as You have said 37 look, I shall put
a fleece of wool on the threshing floor if
there is dew on the fleece only, and it is
dry on all the ground, then I shall know that
You will save Israel by my hand, as You have
said." 38 And it was so. When he rose early
the next morning and squeezed the fleece
together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a
bowlful of water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, "Do
not be angry with me, but let me speak just once
more Let me test, I pray, just once more with
the fleece let it now be dry only on the fleece,
but on all the ground let there be dew." 40 And
God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece
only, but there was dew on all the ground.

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Benefit 1 The Battle separates you from
fearful people who will cause you to react to
your situation in fear instead of faith.
Judges 7 3 Now therefore, proclaim in
the hearing of the people, saying, Whoever is
fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at
once from Mount Gilead.And twenty-two thousand
of the people returned, and ten thousand
remained.

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4 But the LORD said to Gideon, The people are
still too many bring them down to the water, and
I will test them for you there. Then it will be,
that of whom I say to you, This one shall go
with you, the same shall go with you and of
whomever I say to you, This one shall not go
with you, the same shall not go. 5 So he
brought the people down to the water. And the
LORD said to Gideon, Everyone who laps from the
water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall
set apart by himself likewise everyone who gets
down on his knees to drink.
Benefit 2 The battle will identify the true
watchman and the people on their knees.

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Benefit 3 The battle will bring out the night
riders. Genesis 116 Then God made two great
lights the greater light to rule the day, and
the lesser light to rule the night. He made the
stars also.
9 It happened on the same night that the LORD
said to him, Arise, go down against the camp,
for I have delivered it into your hand.
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11 and you shall hear what they say and
afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go
down against the camp. Then he went down with
Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men
who were in the camp.
Benefit 4 The battle will help you to be
strengthened by what others are running
from. Some of you have already come through
things that collapsed other people, but it just
made you stronger.

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• 12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the
  people of the East, were lying in the valley as
  numerous as locusts and their camels were
  without number, as the sand by the seashore in
  multitude.

Benefit 5 The battle will cause you to measure
your enemy against the size of God.
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Benefit 6 The battle reveals hidden things. The
Trumpet Your Praise The Pitcher Your Flesh The
Torch Your Testimony

• 16 Then he divided the three hundred men into
  three companies, and he put a trumpet into every
  mans hand, with empty pitchers, and torches
  inside the pitchers.

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• 17And he said to them, Look at me and do
  likewise watch, and when I come to the edge of
  the camp you shall do as I do
• 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are
  with me, then you also blow the trumpets on
  every side of thewhole camp, and say, The
  sword of the LORD and of Gideon!

Benefit 7 The battle reveals true leaders. In a
battle, leaders must lead. No time for an
election. No time for sideline talk. No time for
wavering. No time for skepticism. We dont
need leaders who are trendy and politically
correct. We need leaders who can walk on to a
battle scene and terrify the enemy. Someone
has to defeat Amalek.
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• Benefit 8
• The enemy is defeated.
• The Battle Scene
• Its at night.
• Its an ambush.
• They are outnumbered.
• The weapons are
• a. A Praise
• b. A Testimony
• c. A Broken Vessel
• 5. Everyone will have to
• give God all of the glory.

• 20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and
  broke the pitchers they held the torches in
  their left hands and the trumpets in their right
  hands for blowing - and they cried, The sword of
  the LORD and of Gideon!

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